Letters of the Rama”z. Letters by Rabbi Moshe Zchut (the Rama”z). Levorno. 1780. First edition. With the stamp of Rabbi Eliezer Rosenfeld of Ushpitzin.
[4] 48 leaves, 18 cm.
Letters of the famous kabbalist Rabbi Moshe Zchut. Following the letters an elef alpin prayer was printed by Rabbi Zchut that consisted of 1000 stanzas, all beginning with the letter “alef.”
With the stamp of Rabbi Elazar Rosenfeld of Ushpitzin, the son of Rabbi Yehoshua of Kaminka. He was born in 1861, and was the son-in-law of Rabbi Hayim Halberstam of Tzanz (married to Freidel). In 1888 he began to serve in the rabbinate of Bochnia, and after the death of his father served as the Admor. In 1907 he moved to Ushpitzin and was known as the Rabbi of Ushpitzin. He immigrated to Israel and then returned to Poland, where he died in the middle of the Holocaust in Sosnovitz.
Old binding. Age stains. Damage on the last leaf without loss of text. Fine condition